During his platform address in October, Arthur Dobrin, leader emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, posed the following 10 questions, suggesting that members consider each one for a moment. 1. What are you called upon to do as a humanist? 2. How does the idea of the dignity and worth of every […]
Philosophy
President’s Column: Welcome Back! Sept. 2016
Janet Glass A group of about 70 people will be gathered in fellowship on Sunday, September 11, in the Meetinghouse of The Ethical Culture Society. The group has come together to socialize, share thoughts on what they believe, and listen to a sermon of sorts on how to improve themselves and the world. In many ways, […]
Hello from your new president, by Janet Glass
Star Trek, my Utopian vision of the future Ms Boe Meyerson was speaking that Sunday. Her talk was about how the original Star Trek TV series provided the viewer with an ideal version of society. The Starship Enterprise was run by an empowered and evolved crew; Asian, white, female, male, African-American, even Vulcan. Each was […]
Speaking of Ethics: Living a Humanist Life
Author: Joseph Chuman (CreateSpace, North Charleston, S.C., 2014) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn On the cover of Joseph Chuman’s Speaking of Ethics, a silhouetted male figure holds a bullhorn in his right hand. With his left hand extended, index figure pointing upward, he rallies his troops. Women and men gesticulating wildly join him in protest. Action […]
My Ethics are Not for Sale: Preserving the Human Spirit in a Market-Driven World
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, February 2014 Last December I had a conversation that I often—perhaps I might say, too often—engage in these days. A gentleman who was about my age met me in my office to arrange funeral plans for his mother, who had died just a few days before. His mother had […]
4/6/2014: How Can People Do This to Each Other? Rwanda, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities
The killing began 20 years ago this April. April 4th to be exact. It lasted for a hundred days, and when it was over, 800,000 Rwandans, the overwhelming majority who were Tutsi, were slaughtered in a frenzy of extermination that surpassed in its rate of killing the Nazi genocide. But in the case of Rwanda, […]
